Eyeglass-holder.



F. R. BISHOP. EYEGLASS HOLDER, APPLICATION'FILED FEB. 9. I918.

Patented June 18, 1918.

514 ventoz "U TED STATES PATENT OFFICE a FREDERICK R. BISHOP, OF NORTHATTLEBORO,MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE BISHOP COMPANY, INC., 01 NORTHATTLEBORO,MASSACHUSETTS.

EYEGLASS-HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, FREDERICK R. BISHOP, a citizen of the United States,residing at North Attleboro, in the county of Bristol and State ofMassachusetts, have invented eye glass holders of the type employing acasing to be pinned or otherwise secured on the wearing apparel, aspring-wound reel in said casing, and a cord or chain wound on said reeland adapted for attachment to the eye glasses; and the principal objectis to provide a novel construction and arrangement of parts for normallypreventing the spring of the reel from winding the latter, theconstruction of such means being so simplified a to cheapen manufacturewithout lack of efliciency.

With the foregoing general object in view the invention resides in thenovel features of construction and unique arrangements of parts to behereinafter fully described and claimed, the descriptive matter beingsupplemented by the accompanying drawing which forms a part of thisspecification and in which:

Figure 1 is a rear elevation;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the plane of the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an edge view;

Figs. 4 and 5 are sectional views on the planes of the lines 4-4 and 5-5respectively of Fig. 2; and

liig. 6 is a perspective view of the cord ree In the drawings abovebriefly described, the numeral 1 designates any preferred type of flatcircular casing having the usual or any preferred form of pin 2 or otherattaching device on its rear side, the edge of said casing having anopening 3 through which the eye glass cord or chain 4 passes from thereel 5 which is located within the casing. The reel 5 is formed ofstamped metal and it ends are provided with circular recesses 6 and 7the former receiving the winding spring 8 while a pawl 9 is located inthe recess 7 to normally prevent winding movement of the reel. The reelis rotatably Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 18, 1918.

Application filed February 9, 1918. Serial No. 216,344.

mounted on a fixed central post or shaft 10 having one end reduced,passed through the rear side of the casing 1, and upset at 11. The post10 has its opposite sides milled or otherwise flattened at12 adjacentits anchored end, said flattened sides being located in the recess 7 forcooperation with the pawl 9, and the end of the post opposite saidanchored end is free of connection with the casing and is provided witha longitudinal slit in which t e spring 8 is anchored.

The pawl above referred to is stamped from a single piece of sheet metalof proper thickness and said pawl is formed in substantially the shapeof a J, one end of said pawl having a V-shaped notch 13 while the otherend thereof is increased in width to form a weight 14. A lug 15 isstamped inwardly from the sheet metal wall of the recess 7 and isreceived loosely in the notch 13 to pivotally mount the pawl so that thelatter may so swing as to either engage or disengage the flattened sides12 of the shaft 10, the inner curved edge of the pawl being providedwith an integral lug 16 cooperating with said flat sides as shown inFig. 4. Normally, that is when the cord 4 is unwound from the reel, thelug 16 engages one fiat side 12 of the shaft 10 as shown in Fig. 4 sothat rewinding of the reel is prevented. In order to release the pawlhowever it is simply necessary to give a rather sharp pull on the cordand to then quickly release the same, but the moment the movement of thereel is sufliciently slow to permit the weight 14 to dro againstcentrifugal force, the lug 16 wil again engage the shaft 10 to arrestfurther I movement of the reel.

The exact construction and mounting of the pawl 9 and of the post 10 isextremely simple and inexpensive and is therefore easy to manufacture,yet these features do not result in any loss of efiiciency ordurability. It is this novel arrangement of parts that forms the gist ofthe present invention and upon which Letters Patent is sought.

I claim:

1. In an eye glass holder, the combination of a flat casing, a fixedcentral shaft in said casing having its opposite sides flattened at oneend, and a spring-wound stamped metal cord reel in said casing mountedrotatably on said shaft, one end of said reel having stamped therein acircular recess at whose center the flattened end of said shaft is 10-cated; together with a lug the wall of said recess and extendingintothe" latter, and a =J-shaped pawl i11 said" recess E having in one''enda notch into -Whi'ch said lug projects to pivotally mount said pawl,

Winding movement of the reel. 2; A: structure -a -.specified in jclaim-1,

saidshaft-being,:anhoredat, oneendto the ucasingsand being freeofconnectionwith said at its other end, thefia'ttene'd'sides of saidshaft being located adjacent the anchored thereof and athe ifree: end ofsaid post-havinga longitudiifal slit in Which the reei 'winding springis anchored.

*- -In-testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence oftwo subscribing Witnesses? v FREDERICK R. BISHOP.

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